Marko Naberšnik (born 1973) is a
Slovenia
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n television and film director and screenwriter. His first film ''
Rooster's Breakfast'' (2007) was a box-office hit in Slovenia.
Early life
Marko Naberšnik was born on 12 April 1973 in
Maribor
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, Slovenia.
He attended an 8-week filmmaking program at
New York Film Academy
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in 1996,
and in 2010
received a master's degree from the
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in
Ljubljana
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Career
Naberšnik has done much work for television, as well as having made a few films.[
His debut feature film was '' Rooster's Breakfast'' (2007), which was the "third most-watched Slovenian film of all time",][ won the CBS Critics Award at the South East European Film Festival in ]Los Angeles
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, and was the official Slovenian entry for the Academy Awards
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that year.[
Naberšnik's second feature film,][ ''Shanghai Gypsy'' (2012), which screened at the ]Cleveland International Film Festival
The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) is an annual film festival based in Cleveland, Ohio. CIFF is the largest film festival in Ohio and among the longest-running in the United States. The festival is held at Playhouse Square, the lar ...
in the US in April 2013, was based on the novel ''The Untouchables'' (''Nedotakljivi'') by Feri Lainšček, telling a multi-generational story of the Slovenian Romani
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Mirga family. The film won the Best Screenplay award at the Montreal World Film Festival
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drama ''The Woods Are Still Green'' (2014), starring Michael Kristof and Simon Serbinek, was produced and co-written by Austrian filmmaker Robert Hofferer,[ with Hefferer's production company Artdeluxe Films]The Hollywood Reporter
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'' as "a timely meditation on the futility of war and its ability to dehumanize and degrade".
Other activities
he was a professor at AGRFT in Ljubljana.[
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References
External links
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Writers from Maribor
Slovenian film directors
Slovenian screenwriters
Slovenian male screenwriters
Slovenian television directors
1973 births
Living people
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